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Loveless by Alice Oseman
3.0

The narrative style isn’t my favorite but the exploration of asexuality and aromanticism was very interesting and so needed for many people in the world. Specifically the implications of a life without a romantic or sexual partner is what I think many allosexual and alloromantic people, including myself, struggle to understand. (And aro-ace people like Georgia herself, upon first discovery.) Oseman does a fantastic job gently opening up and changing your expectations in regards to that, showing you how someone can be The Person in a platonic way for someone and simultaneously The Person in a romantic way for someone else, showing you how there is fulfillment beyond romance, which I think many of us theoretically believe but in practice do not understand. Or perhaps we don’t understand the non-monogamous nature of it.